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This 4 page paper examines sections 4 and 5 of the book "The Americans: The National Experience" by Daniel Boorstin. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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This paper examines sections 4 and 5 of the book. Discussion Boorstins work in this volume covers the period roughly from the Revolution through the Civil War.
However, he doesnt give his young readers portraits of the great men of the time; instead he examines "social configurations, of how institutions, customs and ways of understanding the world
were shaped by the confluence of European ideas and traditions and the experience of living in a New World" (The Americans: The national experience). He also examines the effect
that geography had on forming the character of the American nation, and that is evident in Parts 4 and 5, in which he considers the South and the West. Many
historians have said that the one of the Constitutions biggest flaws is the fact that it established the country with slavery still in place. Given that fact, it was
probably inevitable that the country would eventually go to war over the issue. In Part 4, entitled "The Rooted and the Uprooted: Southerners White and Black," Boorstin explores that
strange southern society that found it acceptable to keep other human beings in chains, and suggests that it was the way in which the South developed that influenced its decision
to keep slaves. The South, unlike the North, didnt have any major cities or centers of "civilization" such as Boston, Philadelphia or New York; Virginia, the most prosperous of the
colonies, didnt have a single city during the Revolutionary period; the capital, Williamsburg, was little more than a sleepy village that woke up only during elections; other than that it
had a permanent population of only 1,500 (Boorstin, 1965). By 1820, there were seven cities (Baltimore is a good example) in the slave stats, but none which could trace
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